Smokescreen

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  smokescreen
       n 1: (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that
            obscures movements [syn: {smoke screen}]
       2: an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure;
          "requesting new powers of surveillance is just a
          smokescreen to hide their failures" [syn: {smoke screen}]